Primary Contributions (6)
History of Azerbaijan, history of Azerbaijan from ancient times to the present. In ancient and early medieval times, eastern Transcaucasia was populated by Iranian speakers, nomadic Turkic tribes, Kurds, and the Caucasian Albanians, who converted to Christianity in the 4th century and came under…
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Publications (5)
Stalin Passage to Revolution (October 2020)
By Ronald Grigor Suny
A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative years
This is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account of how an impoverished, idealistic youth from the provinces of tsarist Russia was transformed into a cunning and fearsome outlaw who would one day become one of the twentieth century's most ruthless dictators.
In this monumental book, Ronald Grigor Suny sheds light on the least...
"They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else" A History of the Armenian Genocide (March 2015)
By Ronald Grigor Suny
"Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by ninety percent--more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian versions of events. In this...
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The Structure of Soviet History Essays and Documents (April 2013)
By Ronald Grigor Suny
Edited by eminent historian Ronald Grigor Suny, this unique collection of primary documents and important scholarly articles frames both the revolutionary changes and broad continuities in Soviet history. Organized chronologically and covering political, social, and cultural history from a variety of viewpoints, selections include official pronouncements and dissident manifestos, public speeches, private letters, and previously un-translated documents. An introductory essay provides the broad outlines...
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Becoming National A Reader (1996)
By Professor of History Geoff Eley, Professor of Political Science Ronald Grigor Suny, Geoff Eley, Ronald Grigor Suny
Being national is the condition of our times, yet never before has the idea of the nation been under such scrutiny. With the collapse of the bi-polar world of the Cold War, there has also been a parallel rise in the subnational--the claims of local, regional, and ethnic minorities--economic globalization, American cultural hegemony, international migration, and diasporization. In Becoming National Eley and Suny, two of the foremost authorities on nationalism, acknowledge these changes by combinging...
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The Making of the Georgian Nation, Second Edition (October 1994)
By Ronald Grigor Suny
". . . the best study in English to date for an understanding of Georgian nationalism." —Religious Studies Review
". . . the standard account of Georgian history in English." —American Historical Review
". . . tour de force research . . . fascinating reading." —American Political Science Review
Like the other republics floating free after the demise of the Soviet empire, the independent republic of Georgia is reinventing its past, recovering what had been forgotten or distorted...
